There is great concern today about the condition of our environment and the impact of global climate change. Much effort is being made to determine how we can reduce our carbon footprint. The farmers and ranchers of Tallgrass Beef Company contribute daily to the reduction of carbon in our atmosphere. Through the natural process of cattle grazing grasses and other forages, carbon is captured from the air and returned to the soil. Tallgrass works directly with Environmentally Correct Concepts, Inc. (ECCI) to measure and quantify the actual amount of carbon captured (sequestered) and returned to the soil. ECCI holds the only US patents on this technology and can fully answer the question – Where are your carbon credits? Each Carbon Credit represents 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) removed from the air and stored or sequestered in the soil.
Grasslands are the model for sustainability and recycling of nutrients from the land and from the air. Growing grasses live and thrive on carbon dioxide from the air. Through the centuries, grass and grazing animals evolved together to produce an ideal environment and to produce food of exceptional nutritional quality. Cattle and grass are actually a very old and very efficient natural recycling system.
Growing grass removes CO2 from the air and the carbon is used to build the new growth. The grass growing above ground gets eaten by cattle, but a corresponding amount of CO2 is used to grow roots that sustain vibrant regrowth. Roots hold vulnerable soil, preventing excess runoff and erosion, and eventually decay to become part of the soil, thus storing or sequestering the carbon underground.
Therefore, carbon stored underground in grass roots eventually becomes a part of this newly created soil. This is the exact process that produced, through the centuries, the deep, rich soil of the great American prairie. This natural process, of cattle grazing on open pasture, can be used to clean carbon from the air released from fossil fuel burning, and put it back underground as part of the soil. America’s wealth is in our pasture and prairies and our soil can be a renewable resource!
Farmers and ranchers that produce Tallgrass beef actively manage their grasslands through advanced grazing technology and strategies to remove more CO2 from the air by growing more grass.
You can encourage more cattle grazing on open fields of grass, instead of being confined in feedlots eating trucked in grain. Eating more Tallgrass beef means ranchers raise more Tallgrass cattle, resulting in more grass growth and recycling of carbon. The result is a cleaner environment and cleaner air.
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